A high school student earns $3.00 for every ten boxes of candy he sells door-to-door. His energetic selling reflects
a. fixed ratio reinforcement.
b. respondent conditioning.
c. stimulus generalization.
d. variable interval conditioning.
A
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The judge has assembled a group of prospective jurors and is asking them to raise their hand if the answer is "yes" to the following question. He asks, "Do any of you have an opinion at this time as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant?" The judge sees that no one has raised a hand, so he accepts all as jurors. Based on information provided in Chapter 12, did the judge make a good decision?
A. The judge did not make a good decision as asking yes/no questions is not a good way to uncover jurors' biases. B. The judge did not make a good decision as the proper way to ask jurors questions is to let the attorneys do it. C. The judge made a good decision as research shows that you can believe those who claim to be impartial. D. The judge made a good decision because if someone held a strong opinion, they would have raised their hand.
It is normal for middle-aged and older adults without corrected vision to need to hold print items farther away to read them
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
A random sample is a sample in which _______
a. every member of a target population is chosen to be in the sample b. members of the sample are chosen by chance from the general population, whether or not they are members of the target population c. every member of the target population has an equal chance of being chosen to be in the experimental sample d. members are prescreened to assure suitability for the study and are selected based on researcher decisions
Deficits in planning, organizing, or sequencing activities or in engaging in abstract thinking
is called ______. a. agnosia c. disturbance in executive functioning b. apraxia d. aphasia